Random ([info]randomsome1) wrote in [info]killherdarlings,
@ 2006-07-13 10:04:00
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Danse Macabre revisited (and transplanted!)
Title: Danse Macabre revisited
Spoilers: Danse Macabre, sorta
Ratings: V, implied future death
Characters/Pairings: Ronnie, Anita, Nathaniel, Micah. No pairings.
Disclaimers: What, you think I'd actually want to lay claim to owning any of the characters from this? They're still all LKH's.

Notes: One hour and a half a bottle of wine, and I ended up with pastiche crack. I didn't actually kill anyone, but was told to bring it here anyway. The first bit of Danse Macabre got pretty thoroughly mauled. Ph34r.


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“I probably shouldn’t have told you my deepest, darkest secrets, huh, Anita?” Ronnie said.

“Not if you didn’t want everyone to know that you’re a stupid, stupid whore,” I replied smugly. “You should’ve known better than to insult me, anyway. Everyone loves me. I’m Nimir-ra, and you are not, so nya-nyah.”

“Why am I your friend again?”

“Because I’m the best person ever to walk the face of the planet!”

“Yes you are, Anita,” Micah said from behind me.

“Anita’s the greatest,” Nathaniel said.

“See,” I told her. “I have these two great guys with awesome bodies fawning all over me all the time-”

“I love you, Anita,” Micah said.

“I love you, Anita,” Nathaniel said.

“-And you’re really just jealous that I have them!”

Ronnie did not just roll her eyes at me. “Yeah, bodies. Too bad the personalities are missing.”

“What?” I snapped. “They have perfectly wonderful personalities that you’re just too stupid to see, because I hid them all in the sex scenes.”

“I love you, Anita,” said Nathaniel.

“I love you, Anita,” said Micah.

“Yeah,” Ronnie snickered. “They’re so perfect that they can’t even act as separate entities.”

“Sure they can!” Ronnie doubting me made my beast of the day start swimming around in my tummy. It felt wet. Wet like a swimming beastie. I wondered what this one was. “Show her that you’re different people, guys!”

“I angst a lot,” Nathaniel said.

“I have a Doomcock,” Micah said.

“See?” I said triumphantly. “They’re different.”

“I love you, Anita,” Micah said.

“I love you, Anita,” Nathaniel said.

“Stop that!” My beast and temper and stuff was rising, which wasn’t good – but at least it wasn’t PMS since I hadn’t had my period in a while, which made, me think about, what would happen if I had period-sex with anything vampire-y. Instead of grabbing one of the guys, and humping them, until they screamed, on the floor, I yelled at them. “You’re supposed to be helping!”

Micah shut up. Nathaniel didn’t look happy.

“But anyway,” I said to Ronnie, “You’re a stupid, stupid whore. I’m much more special than you, anyway!” I searched for my list of titles that I’d gotten this week. “I’m a–”

“Meanie!” shouted Nathaniel.

Ronnie choked. Micah blinked his pretty kitty-cat eyes. I dropped my list, stunned. Nathaniel was calling Ronnie names?

Wait, what? He was pointing at me.

“You’re mean! And you don’t love me enough! And . . . and . . . I’m gonna go cut myself!”

With a stifled, sob, he ran into, the bathroom, with a pair of scissors in his hand. I didn’t believe it for a second – he did dumb things sometimes, like set the answering machine for a few extra rings, and leave the timer on the oven for an extra minute or two, and . . .

Oh, wait, Nathaniel was going to go cut himself.

I ran to the door, Micah, and Ronnie close behind. “Nathaniel! Don’t do this! Don’t disfigure your beautiful body!”

“But you were just telling me that you claw the hell out of him all the time and that he likes it,” Ronnie said.

Fuck.

“Nathaniel! If you hurt yourself I won’t love you as much!”

“I love you, Anita,” Micah said.

“Shut up!” I screamed back.

But when I turned around, the door was open. Nathaniel . . . had put his hair in a braid. His hair always looked like it was short when it was in a braid, which was a lie, because it, was long, and, putting it in a braid, tricked people into thinking, that he had short hair, except for when they looked at him and saw, that it was in a braid.

“Shit, Nathaniel,” Ronnie said quietly.

Then I noticed what Nathaniel had in his hand. His hair. He’d chopped all his hair off.

“I feel . . . surprisingly lucid,” Nathaniel replied.

That just did for me. Only not in a way that made the adreur kick in. In a way that made my beast chew up the furniture and poop on the carpet.

“Nathaniel!” I screamed. “You cut your hair!”

“Thank you, Captain Obvious,” Ronnie said.

“Aww, now she’ll have to add that to her title list,” Nathaniel grinned.

Now Nathaniel was being, mean, to me? What the fuck was going on?

“I’ll never have sex with you again!” I screamed.

“I love you, Anita,” Micah said.

Nathaniel frowned at him, then looked at the hair and scissors still in his hand, then, looked back at Micah. “We’re gonna have to fix that.” Then before, I knew it, he’d dragged Micah into the bathroom and slammed the door in our faces.

Beside me, Ronnie was in hysterics.

“This isn’t funny!” I screamed at her.

“Yes it is!” she howled back.

My beast was knocking at the door of my tummy, holding flowers and a top hat. I think it wanted out. Then Micah screamed, and, it stopped asking nicely, and started, demanding.

Nathaniel opened the door to the bathroom sheepishly. “I don’t think it worked. You might want to call an ambulance.”

“What’d you do to Micah?!” I screamed.

“Tried to fix him,” he replied cheerily. “I did fix him, just . . . not in the right way.” He stopped me when I tried to look in the bathroom door. “You might just want to call the ambulance. I’m not sure that’ll regenerate.”

He’d cut Micah’s hair?

“I love you, Anita,” Micah said weakly from somewhere, in the bathroom.

“Micah, it’ll be ok, we’ll get you shampoo and–”

“I think he turned me into a girl, Anita,” Micah interrupted. Then, I knew it was bad, because Micah never interrupted me, when I didn’t want him to, because, that wouldn’t be perfect. “I hope you’ll still love me . . .”

The rage spilled over me, and I screamed. Screamed because I was angry. Screamed because Ronnie was mean. Screamed because Nathaniel had gone crazy and cut his pretty hair and hurt Micah’s pretty, pretty pink bits. And my beast screamed with me.

“I’ll show you all!” I screamed, as I felt the beast start to change me. “I’ll become something none of you has ever seen! I’ll be the most special, most beautifulest, bestest werecreature of them all! A diety among furries! All shall sex me and fear!”

I let the change take me, and Ronnie stepped back. Then, as I staggered up from the floor, something filled me. It was like the ardor, only better. And different. It was different and better because I felt the need to be filled . . . with leaves.

“It’s an Anita-pillar,” Ronnie laughed delightedly.

“Yeah,” Nathaniel replied. “She’s a were-butterfly – only still in the caterpillar stage.”

See, I tried to tell them. I’m something you’d never have expected. Nobody’s ever heard of were-butterflies . . . But my mouth wouldn’t work right.

“And the best part,” Nathaniel continued, “is that now she has to eat bush – if only for the next few months.”

“And after that?” Ronnie asked – but it didn’t matter, because they weren’t nearly as neat as the lawn just outside my front door. But as I buried my head in a luscious pile of greenery, devouring the glistening, wet blades of grass, which, hadn’t been cut by Micah because, I fucked him rather than let him mow the lawn, I heard, Nathaniel’s reply.

“By then, if the were-wasps don’t show up and the neighbors don’t stick a pitchfork or two in her . . . we get a can of pesticide.”


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[info]_cynical_beauty
2006-07-13 02:18 pm UTC (link)
this made my day.

especially this:
Nathaniel. . . had put his hair in a braid. His hair always looked like it was short when it was in a braid, which was a lie, because it, was long, and, putting it in a braid, tricked people into thinking, that he had short hair, except for when they looked at him and saw, that it was in a braid.
classic.

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[info]dwg
2006-07-13 03:33 pm UTC (link)
*dies and iz ded*

Viva la crackfic!

Werebutterfly. *snerk*

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[info]delphinapterus
2006-07-13 05:19 pm UTC (link)
“And the best part,” Nathaniel continued, “is that now she has to eat bush – if only for the next few months.” I liked this line.

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[info]shikomekidomi
2006-07-13 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Well, you imply that Anita's going to die at the hands of either neighbors, were-wasps, or pesticide, so perhaps that counts as killing. Lovely, lovely killing.
Having not yet scarred my brain by looking at Danse Macabre, I must say this kind of sounds like it could be a summary, except for the lack of sex... oh, and Anita being put out to pasture. Maybe you should convince people that this is the secret ending of the next Anita Blake book and distribute it across the web.

“I probably shouldn’t have told you my deepest, darkest secrets, huh, Anita?” Ronnie said.
“Not if you didn’t want everyone to know that you’re a stupid, stupid whore,” I replied smugly. “You should’ve known better than to insult me, anyway. Everyone loves me. I’m Nimir-ra, and you are not, so nya-nyah.”
“Why am I your friend again?”
“Because I’m the best person ever to walk the face of the planet!”

Heh.

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[info]faeriethistle
2006-07-14 07:45 am UTC (link)
That just did for me. Only not in a way that made the adreur kick in. In a way that made my beast chew up the furniture and poop on the carpet.

My beast was knocking at the door of my tummy, holding flowers and a top hat. I think it wanted out. Then Micah screamed, and, it stopped asking nicely, and started, demanding.


~howling with laughter~
Touche!

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[info]bentlilies
2006-08-29 07:05 am UTC (link)
Ooooh, I loved that part, too. :D

--reina

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[info]saadiira
2006-07-15 11:53 pm UTC (link)
This made me laugh. I liked this very much. AWESOME couple of lines, and ending..and the whole concept was just terrific.

GOOD ONE!

-Dira-

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[info]randomsome1
2006-07-16 02:46 am UTC (link)
The general responses here have made me all kinds of gleeful :)

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[info]bentlilies
2006-08-29 07:06 am UTC (link)
This is hilarious stuff! Thank you. You did an awesome job. :D

I'm going to be quoting this in my head for weeks.

--reina

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[info]vampire_otaku
2006-07-16 11:32 pm UTC (link)
With a stifled, sob, he ran into, the bathroom, with a pair of scissors in his hand. I didn’t believe it for a second – he did dumb things sometimes, like set the answering machine for a few extra rings, and leave the timer on the oven for an extra minute or two, and. . .

Oh, wait, Nathaniel was going to go cut himself.
As her brain wanders off into further stupidity...

“Tried to fix him,” he replied cheerily. “I did fix him, just. . . not in the right way.” He stopped me when I tried to look in the bathroom door. “You might just want to call the ambulance. I’m not sure that’ll regenerate.”

He’d cut Micah’s hair?
XD Yes, he cut his hair. *facepalm*

Wow. I gave up on this series forever ago, and already I prefer your crack to the real thing. The best kind of Anita: silent, unable to have sex, and on her way to becoming wasp food. Yay!

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[info]bentlilies
2006-08-28 10:19 pm UTC (link)
HAHAHAHA!

Thank you!

“I have a Doomcock,” Micah said.</b>

Yeah. That's pretty much all that's so freaking special about Micah.

I'm new to this community and highly disenchanted with LKH's delusional attitude about how her books are going and disregard for the opinions of the people that buy her books and thus feed her.

All the men in the books have been castrated and homogenized. In your version, sometimes literally. ;)

--reina

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[info]randomsome1
2006-08-29 10:40 am UTC (link)
XD
I just keep watching the low number of books we(at my Borders store)'ve actually sold by her and wonder what it takes to be a "bestseller." In relation to Terry Goodkind's Phantom, Danse Macabre did miserably.

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[info]bentlilies
2006-08-29 05:01 pm UTC (link)
Ahhh, that gives me hope.

You see, just a couple of days ago, I thought to myself, "Goddammit, I've had enough. I'm going to actually write a bad review on that book on Amazon."

Me and 400 others!

So then I investigated more (and it was really great to see so many other people had the same qualms about the newer books that I did.), went to her website and found her blog. "I write for myself", "For every person that says there's too much sex, there's ten that say there should be more!", etc.

It totally amazed me in that...horrified, car-crash kind of way. Then I saw pictures from her tour, which was great, till I got to the parts where her new husband guy Jon is actually on stage with her while she answers questions and at her book signings just grinning and hanging out.

I'm sorry, did I miss something? He didn't write these books, right? Okay, so why is he on the stage?? That's just so...I don't know. Co-dependent.

Anita used to be a strong female character and the men used to be individuals. Now I think I see why, and I kind of resent it. And her response to us, the fans.

I'd like it if she realized that we'd all be happy if she just started really writing these characters insteading of cutting and pasting the same droll text from each sex scene over and over.

(Enough with the "OoOOOh I love putting him in my mouth when he's soft" thing. YEAH. You say this in every book. Please stop.)

--reina

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[info]shiegra
2006-10-03 03:15 am UTC (link)
The intelligent fandom has pretty much abandoned her, as far as I can see. The way the series has been going (for quite a while) is, indeed, incredibly disappointing. I did like the early books, but....**shrugs** c'est la vie. I've moved on to better pastures.

(Enough with the "OoOOOh I love putting him in my mouth when he's soft" thing. YEAH. You say this in every book. Please stop.)

FIVE HUNDRED TIMES.

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[info]misora
2006-08-30 03:39 am UTC (link)
*dies laughing*

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[info]shiegra
2006-09-23 01:04 am UTC (link)
O GOD I LOVE.

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[info]nonpresence
2006-10-11 08:21 am UTC (link)
That was fantastic. Truly the way Danse Macabre should have gone. Reading the actual novel I felt a bit sorry for Saint Saens and his little piece. All of your dialogue, and the interesting, use, of punctuation (I have to wonder if she even has editors or if they stopped reading after Obsidian Butterfly too)was wonderfully rendered.

I think the only good thing I can say about Danse Macabre is that it was slightly better than the book before. The bad guys didn't bugger off at the end because they'd gotten bored waiting for Anita to show a little interest in the murder case. It was just about customs problems and dance recitals...

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[info]nomadbeth
2007-01-10 12:34 am UTC (link)
TEh Goddess. You are.

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[info]randomsome1
2007-01-10 03:03 am UTC (link)
;)

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[info]ninthwraith
2007-01-10 03:20 am UTC (link)
This is too good. Which means you'll probably hear from LKH's lawyers (or a sockpuppet) screaming for you to tear it down and how DARE you use her characters when the entire WORLD knows she doesn't let FANS play the THEM?

Oh. Wait. You're an ex-fan. Well then. Carry on. Bwahahahahaaaaa.

I've never bought a book of hers new. I bought Narcissus in Chains at a used store right after Christmas for 25 cents. I can't get past chapter three. Am sooooo tired of the bedroom scenes, the bedroom eyes, the constant sex, the lack of plot.

And oh. The opening scene for NiC could have been the opening scene to your story with a *yawn* twist. "JP and Richard are eeeeeevol! you need to keeeeeellllll them!"

"Nope. Sorry. Can't. My creator never kills anyone I care about. La la la, me a fictional character, I have absolute powah! Fear and loathe me if you must, but all these vampires, were-whatevers, etc. lurv me, so who needs ya?"

You know, as LKH is so smitten with "hearing" her characters, I really wish the good ones would tell her they're leaving her books and going elsewhere, to a writer who knows how to treat them well. And, like, give them lives. Um, plots. Yeah. I meant plots.

(I'm dying to know what Christmas pressies she almost bought whoever.)

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[info]randomsome1
2007-01-10 03:26 am UTC (link)
Lots and lots of conditioner for their pretty hair, perhaps?

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[info]jaquelinecaeth
2007-04-05 02:31 am UTC (link)
-giggles- I actually used to like LKH's books, but that's because I was a teen who didn't know any better and really had nothing else to read. xD I laughed. A lot. And the sad thing is? It's actually a decent summary of pretty much every book anymore. Sex, trouble, sex, trouble, some new amazing power, sex sex sex, and some sappy epilogue. I liked 'Circus of the Damned'. It was interesting, she was a strong, femininstic character... now it's, 'Screw the morals! Wait, I'd rather screw you! Let's fuck!' I still read, though, hoping that maybe LKH will, I dunno, fix what's gone wrong in this series, but...

“A diety among furries! All shall sex me and fear!”

The most amusing thing I've ever seen. And now I end this sad little excuse for a comment. ^^

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[info]randomsome1
2007-04-05 02:40 am UTC (link)
I think what bugs me the most--well, sort of the most--is how it's kids who aren't getting any decent sex ed who are running into things like these books. Jude Deveraux's romance-rape novels fucked me up good--I can imagine readers of this series who've never had sex/never reached orgasm tumbling into bed with a similarly inexperienced partner and trying to figure out why the hell their bodies don't work this way.


Are you watching the wank going down on amazon.com now, too? LKH's personal assistant is trying to defend how Laurell told fans that if they don't like her books, they're stupid.

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[info]jaquelinecaeth
2007-04-05 03:43 am UTC (link)
Yeah, see, I'm one of those 'kids', really. I first picked up an LKH book when I was, say, twelve? Of course internet porn pop-ups had screwed my mind up looong before, so this was just the icing on the cake. Thankfully, I've been educated since before all that crap- informational books, whoo. xD

Nah, can't say that I have been- I'm sort of a recluse and don't pay that much attention to what's going on in the world. Famous people in general tick me off, anyways. How stupid is that? What LKH said is fairly clear, how can you defend someone who goes off on her fans/readers for stating their opinions?

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[info]randomsome1
2007-04-05 03:50 am UTC (link)
What LKH said is fairly clear, how can you defend someone who goes off on her fans/readers for stating their opinions?

Like this, apparently. :P The puppy-pile follows. [info]lkh_lashouts positively exploded when the "Dear Negative Reader" post went up.

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